Kickers of ELF

This distribution is a collection of programs that are generally unrelated, except in that they all deal with the ELF file format.

The main purpose of these programs is to be illustrative and educational -- to help fellow programmers understand the ELF file format and something of how it works under the Linux platform.

Each program is independent. There is no shared code between them, and in fact they all take slightly different approaches to handling ELF files.

The distribution includes:

• sstrip: a small utility that removes a few bytes from an executable that strip leaves behind.
• elfls: a utility that displays an ELF file's program and/or section header tables, which serve as a kind of global roadmap to the file's contents.
• elftoc: a program that takes an ELF file and generates C code that defines a structure with the same memory image, using the structures and preprocessor symbols defined in <linux/elf.h>.
• ebfc: a compiler for a tiny programming language. The compiler can generate ELF executables, object files, and shared libraries.

The distribution also contains my collection of tiny ELF executables.

All the programs in this distribution are available under the GNU General Public License. Share and Enjoy. Contact me if you have any questions or comments.

Software
BR903
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